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<p> Rest, comfort, the name of celebrated patriarch who was preserved by [[Jehovah]] with his family, by means of the ark, through the deluge, and thus became the second founder of the human race. The history of [[Noah]] and the deluge is contained in <span> [[Genesis]] 5:1-9:29 </span> . [[He]] was the son of Lamech, and grandson of [[Methuselah]] lived six hundred years before the deluge, and three hundred and fifty after it, dying two years before [[Abram]] was born. [[His]] name may have been given to him by his parents in the hope that he would be the promised "seed of the woman" that should "bruise the serpent's head." He was in the line of the patriarchs who feared God, and was himself a just man, <span> [[Ezekiel]] 14:14,20 </span> , and a "preacher of righteousness," <span> 1 [[Peter]] 3:19,20 </span> <span> 2 Peter 2:5 </span> . His efforts to reform the degenerate world, continued as some suppose for one hundred and twenty years, produced little effect, <span> [[Matthew]] 24:37 </span> ; the flood did not "find faith upon the earth." Noah, however, was an example of real faith: he believed the warning of God, was moved by fear, and pursued the necessary course of action, <span> Hebrews 11:7 </span> . </p> <p> His first care on coming out from the ark was to worship the Lord, with sacrifices of all the fitting animals. Little more is recorded of him except his falling into intoxication, a sad instance of the shame and misfortune into which wine is apt to lead. His three sons, it is believed, peopled the whole word; the posterity of [[Japheth]] chiefly occupying Europe, those of [[Shem]] Asia, and those of [[Ham]] Africa. </p> <p> [[Numerous]] traces of traditions respecting Noah have been found all over the world. [[Among]] the most accurate is that embodied in the legend of the [[Greeks]] respecting [[Deucalion]] and Pyrrha. We may also mention the medals struck at [[Apamea]] in Phrygia, in the time of Septimus Severus, and bearing the name NO, an ark, a man and woman, a raven, and a dove with an olive branch in its mouth. [[See]] ARK. </p>

<p> The early history of the human race is one of rebellion against [[God]] and rejection of the revelation that God had given ( <span> [[Genesis]] 6:5-6 </span> ; cf. <span> [[Romans]] 1:20-25 </span> ). [[Conditions]] became so morally corrupt that God decided to destroy the rebellious people and to make a new beginning. The new ‘father’ for the human race would be the one man who had remained faithful to God, Noah. When all the people around him were ungodly, [[Noah]] remained blameless. [[He]] was a righteous man who lived in unbroken fellowship with God ( <span> Genesis 6:8-11 </span> ). </p> <p> <span> [[Saved]] through the flood </span> </p> <p> Noah preached righteousness to those around him, but they would not listen to him ( <span> 2 [[Peter]] 2:5 </span> ). God’s way of dealing with the corrupt and unrepentant people was to send a great flood to destroy them ( <span> Genesis 6:17 </span> ; see <span> FLOOD </span> ). </p> <p> God told Noah to build a huge ark in which he, his family, and at least one pair of all the animals of the region could find safety and so be preserved through the disaster ( <span> Genesis 6:12-14 </span> ; <span> Genesis 6:19 </span> ; <span> Genesis 7:1-2 </span> ; see <span> ARK </span> ). Noah demonstrated his faith in God by doing all that God commanded him ( <span> Genesis 7:5 </span> ; <span> Hebrews 11:7 </span> ). [[As]] a result, all in his household were saved ( <span> Genesis 7:7 </span> ; <span> Genesis 8:16-19 </span> ; <span> 1 Peter 3:20 </span> ), so that they, with the preserved animals, could begin life on earth afresh ( <span> Genesis 8:17 </span> ). </p> <p> After Noah offered sacrifices of dedication and thanksgiving, God warned him not to expect a golden age, because people would always be sinful. [[Yet]] God in his grace would allow the sinful human race to continue to live on his earth, and would not punish it with such a flood again ( <span> Genesis 8:20-22 </span> ). God confirmed this promise by making a covenant with Noah and with the human race through him ( <span> Genesis 9:8-13 </span> ). </p> <p> <span> Repopulating the region </span> </p> <p> [[With]] this new beginning, God gave Noah similar responsibilities to those he had originally given to [[Adam]] – responsibilities to populate the earth and look after it ( <span> Genesis 9:1-3 </span> ; cf. <span> Genesis 1:28-30 </span> ). The following chapters of Genesis record how the descendants of Noah’s three sons, Japheth, [[Ham]] and Shem, spread throughout the region, and as a result different ethnic groups, languages and cultures developed ( <span> Genesis 9:18-19 </span> ; <span> Genesis 10:5 </span> ; <span> Genesis 10:20 </span> ; <span> Genesis 10:31 </span> ). </p> <p> [[Of]] the peoples who developed from Japheth, Ham and Shem, those descended from Ham’s son [[Canaan]] were doomed to have their land taken from them by the descendants of Shem. This was partly because Canaan had particularly disgraced Noah when he and Ham found him lying drunk and naked in his tent ( <span> Genesis 9:20-27 </span> ). </p> <p> Noah lived to a great age. During the centuries after the flood, he had the satisfaction of seeing the growth of his descendants and the re-establishment of a healthy human society ( <span> Genesis 9:28-29 </span> ; <span> Genesis 10:32 </span> ). </p>

<span> [[Genesis]] 5:25-29 </span> <p> The words of his father [[Lamech]] at his birth ( <span> Genesis 5:29 </span> ) have been regarded as in a sense prophetical, designating [[Noah]] as a type of Him who is the true "rest and comfort" of men under the burden of life (Matt.11:28). </p> <p> [[He]] lived five hundred years, and then there were born unto him three sons, Shem, Ham, and [[Japheth]] ( <span> Genesis 5:32 </span> ). He was a "just man and perfect in his generation," and "walked with God" (Compare <span> [[Ezekiel]] 14:14,20 </span> ). But now the descendants of [[Cain]] and of [[Seth]] began to intermarry, and then there sprang up a race distinguished for their ungodliness. Men became more and more corrupt, and [[God]] determined to sweep the earth of its wicked population ( <span> Genesis 6:7 </span> ). But with Noah God entered into a covenant, with a promise of deliverance from the threatened deluge (18). He was accordingly commanded to build an ark (6:14-16) for the saving of himself and his house. An interval of one hundred and twenty years elapsed while the ark was being built (6:3), during which Noah bore constant testimony against the unbelief and wickedness of that generation ( <span> 1 [[Peter]] 3:18-20 </span> ; <span> 2 Peter 2:5 </span> ). </p> <p> When the ark of "gopher-wood" (mentioned only here) was at length completed according to the command of the Lord, the living creatures that were to be preserved entered into it; and then Noah and his wife and sons and daughters-in-law entered it, and the "Lord shut him in" (Gen.7:16). The judgment-threatened now fell on the guilty world, "the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished" ( <span> 2 Peter 3:6 </span> ). The ark floated on the waters for one hundred and fifty days, and then rested on the mountains of [[Ararat]] ( <span> Genesis 8:3,4 </span> ); but not for a considerable time after this was divine permission given him to leave the ark, so that he and his family were a whole year shut up within it ( <span> Genesis 614-14 </span> ). </p> <p> [[On]] leaving the ark Noah's first act was to erect an altar, the first of which there is any mention, and offer the sacrifices of adoring thanks and praise to God, who entered into a covenant with him, the first covenant between God and man, granting him possession of the earth by a new and special charter, which remains in force to the present time ( <span> Genesis 8:21-9:17 </span> ).). [[As]] a sign and witness of this covenant, the rainbow was adopted and set apart by God, as a sure pledge that never again would the earth be destroyed by a flood. </p> <p> But, alas! Noah after this fell into grievous sin ( <span> Genesis 9:21 </span> ); and the conduct of [[Ham]] on this sad occasion led to the memorable prediction regarding his three sons and their descendants. Noah "lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years, and he died" (28:29). (See DELUGE). </p> <p> Noah, motion, (Heb. No'ah) one of the five daughters of [[Zelophehad]] (Num.26:33; 27:1; 36:11; <span> [[Joshua]] 17:3 </span> ). </p>

<p> [[Old]] [[Testament]] 1. The son of Lamech, a descendant of [[Adam]] in the line of Seth, and a survivor of the flood. A good and righteous man, [[Noah]] was the father of Shem, Ham, and [[Japheth]] who were born when he was 500 years old. [[God]] warned Noah that [[He]] was going to wipe mankind from the face of the earth. [[Because]] Noah walked with God and stood blameless among the people of that time, God gave him specific instructions for building the ark by which Noah and his family would survive the coming flood. Noah followed the building instructions down to every detail. Then a week before the flood ( <span> [[Genesis]] 7:4 </span> ), Noah led his family and all of the animals into the ark just as God directed. After seven days, the rain began and lasted for 40 days. [[As]] he sought to know whether it was safe to leave the ark, he sent out first a raven and then a dove. When the dove returned with an olive leaf, Noah knew the water had receded. </p> <p> Once out of the ark, Noah built an altar and sacrificed clean animals as burnt offerings on the altar. Then the [[Lord]] promised never again to destroy living creatures as He had done in the flood and established a covenant with Noah and his sons and sealed that covenant with a rainbow. [[See]] [[Covenant]] . </p> <p> The sinful nature of humanity is one thing that remained preserved on the ark. Once on dry ground, Noah planted a vineyard, drank of its wine, became drunk, and exposed himself in his tent. [[Ham]] informed [[Shem]] and Japheth about their father's nakedness. The latter two showed respect for their father and covered him. As a result, they received rich blessings for their descendants from Noah. Ham in turn received a curse for his descendant: Canaan. Noah lived another 350 years after the flood and died at the age of 950 years. </p> <p> New Testament <span> Hebrews 11:7 </span> affirms Noah's actions of faith in building the ark. The references to Noah in <span> 1 [[Peter]] 3:20 </span> and <span> 2 Peter 2:5 </span> speak of Noah and those of his family who were saved in the flood. See [[Flood]] . </p> <p> 2. [[One]] of Zelophehad's five daughters ( <span> [[Numbers]] 26:33 </span> ). [[Of]] the tribe of Manasseh, these daughters received an inheritance in the land in their father's name even though he was dead with no male offspring ( <span> Numbers 27:1-11 </span> ). This was most unusal in that time. [[Judith]] Wooldridge </p>

<p> [[His]] name signifies rest or repose, from Nuach. Some derive it from Nacham, consolation. The [[Holy]] [[Ghost]] hath given the character of this patriarch when calling him a preacher of righteousness. ( <span> <span> 2 [[Peter]] 2:5 </span> </span> ; <span> <span> [[Genesis]] 6:8-22 </span> </span> ; and <span> <span> Genesis 7:1-24 </span> </span> ; <span> <span> Genesis 8:1-22 </span> </span> ; and <span> <span> Genesis 9:1-29 </span> </span> throughout. We have the Holy Ghost's own comments upon Noah's history and character. ( <span> <span> Hebrews 11:7 </span> </span> ) To those [[Scriptures]] I refer. </p>

<p> <strong> NOAH. </strong> <strong> 1 </strong> . <em> Nôach </em> , ‘rest.’ The name is explained in <span> [[Genesis]] 5:29 </span> by a play on <em> nicham </em> , ‘to comfort’; but perhaps the reading supported by the LXX [Note: Septuagint.] should be adopted, ‘This same shall <em> give us rest </em> .’ [[In]] one tradition [[Noah]] is the hero of the Flood, and answers to <strong> Ut-napishtim </strong> in the Bab. [Note: Babylonian.] legend. [[See]] Deluge. Ut-napishtim was translated to immortality; and this is perhaps referred to in <span> Genesis 6:9 </span> b (cf. <span> Genesis 5:24 </span> and see Enoch). In another tradition he is the discoverer of the art of making wine ( <span> Genesis 9:20-27 </span> ). [[Elsewhere]] in the Bible, besides the references to the Flood, Noah is mentioned in <span> 1 [[Chronicles]] 1:4 </span> , <span> [[Ezekiel]] 14:14 </span> ; <span> Ezekiel 14:20 </span> , <span> [[Luke]] 3:36 </span> . <span> Luke 3:2 </span> <strong> . </strong> <em> Nô‘âh </em> ( <span> [[Numbers]] 26:38 </span> ; <span> Numbers 27:1 </span> ; <span> Numbers 36:11 </span> , <span> [[Joshua]] 17:8 </span> ). [[One]] of the daughters of Zelophehad, of the tribe of Manasseh. They claimed their father’s inheritance because he had died leaving no sons. It was given to them, on condition that they were not married into another tribe. </p> <p> A. H. M‘Neile. </p>

<p> <b> NOAH. </b> —The hero of the [[Hebrew]] version of the [[Semitic]] tradition of the Flood; mentioned twice in the Gospels. [[In]] the genealogy of [[Jesus]] ( <span> [[Luke]] 3:36 </span> ) he appears in the ninth generation after Adam, as in the OT narrative. The second mention is in <span> Luke 17:26-27 </span> || <span> [[Matthew]] 24:37-38 </span> , where Jesus uses the [[Flood]] in the days of [[Noah]] to illustrate the sudden and unexpected coming of the [[Son]] of Man; the indifference of the people in the time of Noah is paralleled by the indifference of men to this approaching event. </p> <p> The use of the illustration shows the familiarity of the [[Jews]] with the story of Noah. In the OT there is but the slightest mention of him outside of the immediate Flood-story in Genesis. The writer of <span> [[Isaiah]] 54:9 </span> describes the present distresses of [[Israel]] ‘as the waters of Noah,’ to be followed by peace, according to the unchangeable covenant of peace, as surely as the promise and the covenant followed the Flood. [[Ezekiel]] ( <span> Ezekiel 14:14 </span> ; <span> Ezekiel 14:20 </span> ) knows of three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, efficient mediators to deliver the people by their righteousness; but in the present case, even the three shall be able to deliver only themselves (see also <span> Hebrews 11:7 </span> ). </p> <p> O. H. Gates. </p>

<p> [[Son]] of Lamech, the descendant of Seth, and father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. [[Noah]] is introduced as a just man, perfect in his generations, and as one who walked with God. To him [[God]] revealed that because the earth was full of violence, [[He]] would destroy all flesh with the earth. God bade Noah make the ark, and He would establish [[His]] covenant with him, and would preserve alive in the ark Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their wives. The N.T.reveals the fact thatNoah had faith, and that in godly fear he prepared the ark, in obedience to God's warning, for <i> the saving of his house, </i> thereby condemningthe world and becoming heir of the righteousness which is by faith. God's salvation was seen by faith in the midst of coming judgement. <span> Hebrews 11:7 </span> . </p> <p> [[In]] <span> [[Genesis]] 6 </span> : God said, "My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [or 'indeed'] is flesh; yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years." Men lived to a much greater age than this till long after the flood, so that this seems to refer to the period from the warning to the deluge. We know from other scriptures that God gave the people time for repentance "the <i> longsuffering </i> of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing." <span> 1 [[Peter]] 3:20 </span> . </p> <p> Noah is called a "preacher of righteousness," <span> 2 Peter 2:5 </span> , but another scripture shows that his preparing the ark and his preaching had <i> no </i> effect: "they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until <i> the day </i> that [[Noe]] entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away." <span> [[Matthew]] 24:38,39 </span> . </p> <p> When Noah and all the creatures were safely shut up in the refuge God had devised for them, it is said, God 'remembered' them. In due time He abated the flood, and eventually bade Noah go out of the ark, for though Noah saw that the earth was dry, yet he waited like a dependent one for God's word. His first act on the cleansed earth was to build an altar to the Lord, and offer burnt offerings of all the clean animals and fowls. The [[Lord]] smelled a sweet savour, and said in His heart that He would not again curse the ground for man's sake, nor would He again smite every living thing as He had done. We are thus taught that the providential government of God is carried on upon the ground of the sweet savour of Christ's sacrifice. God blessed Noah and his sons, and established His covenant with them and with every living thing, and gave the bow in the cloud as a token of it. He gave Noah and his sons authority over all living things, with permission to eat flesh, but not with the blood. </p> <p> [[Thus]] God, after smelling a sweet savour in the burnt offering (type of the sacrifice of Christ, and so the earth not being again cursed for man's sake) began the new earth by establishing His covenant with Noah and his sons, blessing the earth and putting its government into their hands. It was a new beginning in a new earth: the "heavens and the earth which <i> are now </i> " are in <span> 2 Peter 2:5 </span> ; <span> 2 Peter 3:6,7 </span> , put in contrast to the "world that <i> then was </i> ," the 'old world.' [[Alas!]] in this new world failure at once characterised the man to whom government had been entrusted. Noah planted a. vineyard, drank of the wine, became intoxicated, and dishonoured God and himself, and was dishonoured by his son. </p> <p> Noah pronounced a blessing on [[Shem]] and Japheth: <i> Jehovah's </i> name is connected with Shem, while Japheth, head of the Gentiles, is enlarged providentially by <i> God </i> ; a curse is pronounced on Canaan. <span> Genesis 6 </span> — <span> Genesis 9 </span> . Noah is twice spoken of as a righteous man, along with [[Daniel]] and Job, though able to secure only their own safety when God's sore judgements were on the land. <span> [[Ezekiel]] 14:14,16,20 </span> . [[See]] ARK and FLOOD. </p>

<p> <span> [[Noah]] </span> ( <span> nô'ah </span> ), <span> rest. </span> <span> [[Genesis]] 6:8 </span> . The son of [[Lamech]] and grandson of Methuselah. Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. [[In]] consequence of the hopeless wickedness of the world at this time, [[God]] resolved to destroy it. During this age of almost universal apostasy we are told that Noah was a righteous man and perfect in his generations— <span> i.e. </span> , among his contemporaries—and that he, like Enoch, walked with God. <span> Genesis 6:9 </span> . [[Peter]] calls him "a preacher of righteousness." <span> 2 Peter 2:5 </span> . [[He]] had three sons, each of whom married a wife; he built the ark in accordance with divine direction; and was 600 years old when the flood came. <span> Genesis 6:7 </span> . [[On]] coming from the ark he built an altar, made an offering, and received a promise that the world should never again be destroyed by a flood. <span> Genesis 8:20 </span> . The closing history in his eventful life of 950 years is given in <span> Genesis 9:1-29 </span> . Noah was to be the father of a new race. From his small family the earth was to be repeopled. And 350 years did he live among his posterity, a monument of God's justice and God's faithfulness. [[One]] more incident is related of him. <span> Genesis 9:20-27 </span> . He planted a vine and drank, knowingly or not we cannot say, too freely of the fruit of it. A shameful scene ensued. But the patriarch recovered, and in the spirit of prophecy predicted happiness to his faithful sons, judgment to the ungodly. "Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." The days of Noah were 950 years when he died. </p>

<p> <span> No'ah. </span> <span> (rest). </span> The tenth in descent from Adam, in the line of Seth, was the son of Lamech, and grandson of Methuselah. (B.C. 2948-1998). We hear nothing of [[Noah]] till he is 500 years old, when it is said he begat three sons, Shem, [[Ham]] and Japheth. [[In]] consequence of the grievous and hopeless wickedness of the world at this time, [[God]] resolved to destroy it. [[Of]] Noah's life during this age of almost universal apostasy, we are told but little. It is merely said that he was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations, (that is, among his contemporaries), and that he, like Enoch, walked with God. St. [[Peter]] calls him "a preacher of righteousness." <span> 2 Peter 2:5 </span> . [[Besides]] this, we are merely told that he had three sons, each of whom had married a wife; that he built the ark in accordance with divine direction; and that he was 600 years old when the flood came. <span> [[Genesis]] 6:7 </span> . </p> <p> <span> The ark. </span> - The precise meaning of the [[Hebrew]] word, ( <span> tebah </span> ), is uncertain. The word occurs only in Genesis and in <span> [[Exodus]] 2:3 </span> . In all probability, it is to the old Egyptian, that we are to look, for its original form. Bunsen, in his vocabulary gives <span> tba </span> , <span> "a chest", </span> <span> tpt </span> , <span> "a boat", </span> and in the [[Coptic]] version of <span> Exodus 2:3 </span> ; <span> Exodus 2:5 </span> , <span> thebi </span> is the rendering of <span> tebah </span> . </p> <p> This "chest" or "boat" was to be made of gopher, (that is, cypress), wood, a kind of timber which, both for its lightness, and its durability, was employed by the Phoenicians for building their vessels. The planks of the ark, after being put together were to be protected by a coating of pitch, or rather bitumen, both inside and outside, to make it water-tight, and perhaps also as a protection against the attacks of marine animals. </p> <p> The ark was to consist of a number of "nests" or small compartments, with a view, no doubt, to the convenient distribution of the different animals and their food. These were to be arranged in three tiers, one above another; "with lower, second and third (stories) shalt thou make it." [[Means]] were also to be provided for letting light into the ark. There was to be a door, that was to be placed in the side of the ark. </p> <p> Of the shape of the ark, nothing is said, but its dimensions are given. It was to be 300 cubits in length, 50 in breadth and 30 in height. [[Taking]] 21 inches for the cubit, the ark would be 525 feet in length, 87 feet 6 inches in breadth, and 52 feet 6 inches in height. This is very considerably larger than the largest [[British]] man-of-war, but not as large as some modern ships. </p> <p> It should be remembered that this huge structure was only intended to float on the water, and was not in the proper sense of the word, a ship. It had neither mast, sail, nor rudder; it was, in fact, nothing but an enormous floating house, or rather oblong box. </p> <p> The inmates of the ark were Noah and his wife and his three sons with their wives. Noah was directed to take also animals of all kinds into the ark with him, that they might be preserved alive. </p> <p> (The method of speaking of the animals that were taken into the ark "clean" and "unclean," implies that only those which were useful to man were preserved, and that no wild animals were taken into the ark; so that there is no difficulty from the great number of different species of animal life existing in the word. - Editor). </p> <p> <span> The flood. </span> - The ark was finished, and all its living freight was gathered into it as a place of safety. <span> [[Jehovah]] </span> shut him in, says the chronicler, speaking of Noah; and then there ensued a solemn pause of seven days before the threatened destruction was let loose. At last, the threatened destruction of the flood came; the waters were upon the earth. A very simple, but very powerful and impressive description is given of the appalling catastrophe. The waters of the flood increased for a period of 190 days. (40+150, comparing <span> Genesis 7:12 </span> and <span> Genesis 7:24 </span> , and then "God remembered Noah" and made a wind to pass over the earth, so that the waters were assuaged. </p> <p> The ark rested on the seventeenth day of the seventh month on the mountains of Ararat. After this, the waters gradually decreased till the first day of the tenth month, when the tops of the mountains were seen, but Noah and his family did not disembark till they had been in the ark, a year and a month and twenty days. [[Whether]] the flood was universal or partial has given rise to much controversy; but there can be no doubt that it was universal, so far as man was concerned: we mean that it extended to all <span> the then known world. </span> The literal truth of the narrative obliges us to believe that <span> the whole human race </span> , except eight persons, perished by the flood. </p> <p> The language of the book of Genesis does not compel us to suppose that the whole surface of the globe was actually covered with water, if the evidence of geology requires us to adopt the hypothesis of a partial deluge. It is natural to suppose it that the writer, when he speaks of "all flesh," "all in whose nostrils was the breath of life" refers only to his own locality. This sort of language is common enough in the [[Bible]] when only a small part of the globe is intended. Thus, for instance, it is said that " <span> all countries </span> came into [[Egypt]] to [[Joseph]] to buy corn and that" a decree went out from [[Caesar]] [[Augustus]] that <span> all the world </span> should be taxed." </p> <p> The truth of the biblical narrative is confirmed by the numerous traditions of other nations, which have preserved the memory of a great and destructive flood, from which but a small part of mankind escaped. They seem to point back to a common centre whence they were carried by the different families of man as they wandered east and west. The traditions which come nearest to the biblical account are those of the nations of western Asia. [[Foremost]] among these is the Chaldean. Other notices of a flood may be found in the [[Phoenician]] mythology. </p> <p> There is a medal of [[Apamea]] in Phrygia, struck as late as the time of Septimius Severus, in which the [[Phrygian]] deluge is commemorated. This medal represents a kind of a square vessel floating in the water. Through an opening in it are seen two persons, a man and a woman. [[Upon]] the top of this chest or ark is perched a bird, whilst another flies toward it carrying a branch between its feet. [[Before]] the vessel are represented the same pair as having just, quitted it and got upon the dry land. [[Singularly]] enough, too, on some specimens of this medal, the letters <span> NO </span> or <span> NOE </span> have been found on the vessel, as in the cut on p. 45. </p> <p> (Tayler [[Lewis]] deduces the partial extent of the flood from the very face of the Hebrew text." "Earth," where if speaks of "all the earth," often is, and here should be, translated "land," the home of the race, from which there appears to have been little inclination to wander. Even after the flood, God had to compel them to disperse. "Under the whole heavens," simply includes the horizon reaching around "all the land" the visible horizon. </p> <p> We still use the words in the same sense and so does the Bible. [[Nearly]] all commentators now agree on the partial extent of the deluge. [[If]] is probable also that the crimes and violence of the previous age had greatly diminished the population, and that they would have utterly exterminated the race had not God in this way saved out some good seed from their destruction. [[So]] that the flood, by appearing to destroy the race, really saved the world from destruction. - Editor). </p> <p> <span> (The scene of the deluge. </span> - [[Hugh]] Miller, in his "Testimony of the Rocks," argues that there is a remarkable portion of the globe, chiefly on the [[Asiatic]] continent, though it extends into Europe, and which is nearly equal to all [[Europe]] in extent, whose rivers, (some of them, the Volga, Oural, Sihon, Kour and the Amoo, of great size), do not fall into the ocean, but, on the contrary are all turned inward, losing themselves in the eastern part of the tract, in the lakes of a rainless district in the western parts into such seas as the Caspian and the Aral. In this region, there are extensive districts still under the level of the ocean. [[Vast]] plains white with salt and charged with sea-shells, show that the Caspian [[Sea]] was at no distant period greatly more extensive than it is now. </p> <p> [[With]] the well-known facts, then, before us regarding this depressed Asiatic region, let us suppose that the human family, still amounting to several millions, though greatly reduced by exterminating wars and exhausting vices, were congregated in that tract of country which, extending eastward from the modern [[Ararat]] to far beyond the Sea of Aral, includes the original [[Caucasian]] centre of the race. [[Let]] us suppose that, the hour of judgment having arrived, the land began gradually to sink, (as the tract in the [[Run]] of [[Cutch]] sank in the year 1819), equably for forty days at the rate of about 400 feet per day; a rate not twice greater than that at which the tide rises in the [[Straits]] of Magellan, and which would have rendered itself apparent as but a persistent inward flowing of the sea. </p> <p> The depression, which, by extending to the [[Euxine]] Sea and the [[Persian]] Gulfm on the one handm and the [[Gulf]] of Finlandm on the other, would open up by three separate channels the "fountains of the great deep," and which included an area of 2000 miles each way, would, at the end of the fortieth day, be sunk in its centre to the depth of 16,000 feet, - sufficient to bury the loftiest mountains of the district; and yet, having a gradient of declination of, but sixteen feet per mile, the contour of its hills and plains would remain apparently what they had been before, and the doomed inhabitants would, but the water rising along the mountain sides, and one refuge after another swept away. - Editor). </p> <p> <span> After the Flood. </span> - Noah's great act, after he left the ark, was to build an altar and to offer sacrifices. This is the first altar of which we read in Scripture, and the first burnt sacrifice. Then follows the blessing of God upon Noah and his sons. Noah is clearly the head of a new human family, the representative of the whole race. It is as such that God makes his covenant with him; and hence, selects a natural phenomenon, as the sign of that covenant. The bow in the cloud [ <span> the rainbow! </span> ], seen by every nation under heaven, is an unfailing witness to the truth of God. </p> <p> Noah now for the rest of his life betook himself to agricultural pursuits. It is particularly noticed that he planted a vineyard. Whether in ignorance of its properties, or otherwise, we are not informed, but he drank of the juice of the grape till he became intoxicated, and shamefully exposed himself in his own tent. </p> <p> [[One]] of sons, Ham, mocked openly at his father's disgrace. The others, with dutiful care and reverence, endeavored to hide it. When he recovered from the effects of his intoxication, he declared that a curse should rest upon the sons of Ham. With the curse on his youngest son, was joined a blessing on the other two. After this prophetic blessing, we hear no more of the patriarch, but the sum of his years, 950. </p> <p> <span> (motion). </span> </p> <p> 2. One of the five daughters of Zelophehad. <span> [[Numbers]] 26:33 </span> ; <span> Numbers 27:1 </span> ; <span> Numbers 36:11 </span> ; <span> [[Joshua]] 17:3 </span> . (B.C. 1450). </p>

<p> the son of Lamech. [[Amidst]] the general corruption of the human race [[Noah]] only was found righteous, <span> [[Genesis]] 6:9 </span> . [[He]] therefore "found grace in the sight of the Lord," and was directed for his preservation to make an ark, the shape and dimensions of which were prescribed by the Lord. [[In]] A.M. 1656, and in the six hundreth year of his age, Noah, by divine appointment, entered his ark with his family, and all the animals collected for the renewal of the world. ( [[See]] <span> DELUGE </span> . ) After the ark had stranded, and the earth was in a measure dried, Noah offered a burnt- sacrifice to the Lord, of the pure animals that were in the ark; and the [[Lord]] was pleased to accept of his offering, and to give him assurance that he would no more destroy the world by water, Genesis 9. He gave Noah power over all the brute creation, and permitted him to kill and eat of them, as of the herbs and fruits of the earth, except the blood, the use of which was prohibited. After the deluge Noah lived three hundred and fifty years; and the whole time of his life having been nine hundred and fifty years, he died, A.M. 2006. According to common opinion, he divided the earth among his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. To [[Shem]] he gave Asia, to [[Ham]] Africa, and to [[Japheth]] Europe. Some will have it, that beside these three sons he had several others. St. [[Peter]] calls Noah a preacher of righteousness, because before the deluge he was incessantly preaching and declaring to men, not only by his discourses, but by the building of the ark, in which he was employed a hundred and twenty years, that the cloud of divine vengeance was about to burst upon them. But his faithful ministry produced no effect, since, when the deluge came, it found mankind practising their usual enormities, <span> [[Matthew]] 24:37 </span> . [[Several]] learned men have observed that the [[Heathens]] confounded Saturn, Deucalion, Ogyges, the god Coelus or Ouranus, Janus, Protheus, Prometheus, &c, with Noah. The fable of [[Deucalion]] and his wife [[Pyrrha]] is manifestly drawn from the history of Noah. The rabbins pretend that [[God]] gave Noah and his sons certain general precepts, which contain, according to them, the natural duties which are common to all men indifferently, and the observation of which alone will be sufficient to save them. After the law of [[Moses]] was given, the Hebrews would not suffer any stranger to dwell in their country, unless he would conform to the precepts of Noah. In war, they put to death without quarter all who were ignorant of them. These precepts are seven in number: the first was against the worship of idols; the second, against blasphemy, and required to bless the name of God; the third, against murder; the fourth, against incest and all uncleanness; the fifth, against theft and rapine; the sixth required the administration of justice; the seventh was against eating flesh with life. But the antiquity of these precepts is doubted, since no mention of them is made in the Scripture, or in the writings of Josephus, or in Philo; and none of the ancient fathers knew any thing of them. </p>

<p> <span> [[Genesis]] 6:9 </span> (c) [[He]] may be taken as the type of a good man, upright, moral, clean, honest and dependable. However, he learned that he would be under the judgment of GOD if he did not find a way of salvation. He therefore entered and stayed in the ark which he built, and was saved from the great flood of GOD's wrath. [[Every]] good man must be saved by the Saviour. [[Everyone]] outside of CHRIST will be lost. (See also <span> Hebrews 11:7 </span> ). </p>

<ol> <li> <i> [[His]] [[Genealogy]] </i> . His blood was pure back to [[Seth]] ( <span> [[Genesis]] 5:3-32 </span> ), and he was a son of [[God]] ( <span> Genesis 6:9 </span> ). </li> <li> <i> His Sons </i> . [[Noah]] had three sons--Shem, Ham, and [[Japheth]] ( <span> Genesis 5:32 </span> ). The order of their births is somewhat difficult to determine. [[Ham]] was the youngest ( <span> Genesis 9:22-24 </span> ) and the proof goes to show that [[Shem]] was the first born ( <span> Genesis 5:32 </span> ). What is the obvious meaning of this statement? [[Simply]] that Noah was five hundred years old At the birth of Shem and that the others were born afterwards. Is there [[Anything]] in the subsequent history of Noah and his sons that is against This interpretation? [[Let]] us see. The phrase "Japheth the elder" ( <span> Genesis 10:21 </span> ) does not express seniority according to the testimony of the best scholars. Noah was six hundred years old at the flood ( <span> Genesis 7:6 </span> ), and Shem was one hundred at this time (600 - 500 = 100). Noah and his family entered the ark on the tenth day ( <span> Genesis 7:1-10 </span> ) of the second month of the six hundredth year of Noah's life ( <span> Genesis 7:11 </span> ), and came out on the twenty-seventh day of the second month of the six hundred and first year of his life ( <span> Genesis 8:12-14 </span> ). They were in the ark one year and seventeen days. Shem was at least one [[Hundred]] one years and seventeen days old when he came out of the ark ( <span> Genesis 5:32 </span> ; <span> Genesis 7:7-11 </span> ; <span> Genesis 8:12-19 </span> ). [[Arphaxad]] was born two years after the flood, that is, after the flood began ( <span> Genesis 11:10,11 </span> ). Shem was, therefore, one hundred two years old at the birth of Arphaxad. </li> <li> <i> God </i> s [[Revelation]] to Him'. God revealed to Noah His purpose to [[Destroy]] the human race. The limit already placed upon the existence of The wicked people was one hundred twenty years. ( <span> Genesis 6:3,11-13 </span> ). </li> <li> <i> The [[Ark]] </i> . Noah was commanded to make an ark of gopher wood. The Dimensions, allowing eighteen inches to the cubit, were four hundred [[Fifty]] long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high ( <span> Genesis 6:15 </span> ). During the building of the Ark Noah preached righteousness to his contemporaries ( <span> 2 [[Peter]] 2:5 </span> ). </li> <li> <i> Inmates of the Ark </i> . The ark contained eight persons--Noah, his Wife, three sons and their wives, and two of every kind of unclean Animals, and seven pair of animals that were clean, and seven pair of [[All]] kinds of fowls ( <span> Genesis 6:17-22 </span> ; <span> Genesis 7:1-16 </span> ). </li> <li> <i> The [[Flood]] </i> . The water fell in ceaseless torrents for forty days And forty nights until the highest mountains were covered fully Twenty-two and a half feet ( <span> Genesis 7:12,20 </span> ), and ended in the destruction of everything upon the dry land ( <span> Genesis 7:21-24 </span> ). </li> <li> <i> Noah </i> s Salvation'. Noah's salvation is ascribed to <ol> <li> faith, </li> <li> fear, </li> <li> the ark, </li> <li> obedience, </li> <li> water ( <span> Genesis 6:22 </span> ; <span> Genesis 7:5 </span> ; <span> Hebrews 11:7 </span> ; <span> 1 Peter 3:19-21 </span> ). </li> </ol> </li> <li> <i> God </i> s [[Covenant]] with Noah'. After the flood God established a Covenant with Noah that [[He]] would never again destroy all living flesh [[By]] water ( <span> Genesis 8:18-22 </span> ; <span> Genesis 9:1-17 </span> ). </li> </ol>

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